Historical
1709: Afghanistan - Hotaki dynasty founded in Afghanistan
1709: Russia, Sweden, Turkey - Charles XII of Sweden flees to Ottoman Empire after Peter I of Russia defeats his army at the Battle of Poltava
1710-1711: Russia, Turkey - Ottoman Empire fights Russia in the Russo-Turkish War (fourth of ten), Turkish victory
1713-1714: India - Tarabai establishes rival Maratha Empire government in Kolhapur against Chattrapati Shahu
1714: England - Accession of George I, Elector of Hanover, to the throne of Great Britain, he rules until 1727
1715: England, Scotland - First Jacobite rebellion breaks out
1715: France - Louis XIV dies, leaving France deep in debt
1715: Italy - Pope Clement XI declares Catholicism and Confucianism Incompatible
1716: India - Establishment of the Sikh Confederacy along the India Pakistan border
1718-1730: Turkey - Tulip period of the Ottoman Empire
1718: United States - Blackbeard (Edward Teach) is killed by Robert Maynard in a North Carolina Inlet on the Inner side of Ocracoke Island
1718: United States - City of New Orleans founded by the French in North America
1719: England, Scotland - Spanish attempt to restart the Jacobite rebellion fails
1720-1721: France - The Great Plague of Marseille
1720: England, South America - The South Sea Bubble starts, It is a British joint stock company that tradez in South America, the company is granted a monopoly to trade in the Spanish South American colonies as part of a treaty during the War of Spanish Succession, the primary element of trade was slaves, in return, the company assumes the national debt England Incurs during the war
1720: Spain, Mexico - Spanish military embarks on the Villasur expedition from Mexico and travel into the Great Plains
1721: China - Kangxi Emperor bans Christian Missionaries because of the decree by Pope Clement XI
1721: England - Robert Walpole became the first Prime Minister of Great Britain (de facto)
1721: Russia, Denmark, Poland, Sweden - Treaty of Nystad signed, ending the 21-year long Great Northern War, It was a coalition of numerous states that successfully contested Swedish supremacy in northern Central and Eastern Europe, Initially, the anti-Swedish alliance was composed of Peter the Great of Russia, Frederik IV of Denmark-Norway and August the Strong of Saxe-Poland-Lithuania
1721: Russia - Peter I reforms the Russian Orthodox Church
1722-1723: Russia, Iran - Russo-Persian War
1722-1725: England, Ireland - Controversy over the halfpence of William Wood leads to the Drapier Letters and begins the Irish economic Independence from England movement
1722: Afghanistan, Iran - Afghans conquered Iran, overthrowing the Safavid Shah Soltan Hosein
1722: Africa - Welsh pirate Bartholomew Roberts is killed in a sea battle off the African coast
1722: China - Kangxi Emperor of China dies
1723-1730: Kazakhstan - The Great Disaster, an Invasion of Kazakh territories by the nomadic Dzungars
1723: Russi - Slavery abolished in Russia, Peter the Great converted the household slaves into house serfs
1725: Africa - The Fulani nomads took complete control of Fuuta Jallon (Guinea, West Africa) and set up the first of many Fulani jihad states to come
1726: China - The enormous Chinese encyclopedia Gujin Tushu Jicheng of over 100 million written Chinese characters in over 800,000 pages is printed in 60 different copies using copper-based Chinese movable type printing
1727-1729: England, Spain - Anglo-Spanish War
1729-1735: England - Charles Wesley and John Wesley begin the Methodism in England